Read about MOT’s successful $50 million campaign, in Crain’s Detroit Business
What do you get the longest-running director of a U.S. opera company for retirement?
A $50 million campaign wrapped up.
When David DiChiera, founder and artistic director of the Michigan Opera Theatre, retires a year from this May, he’ll cap a 46-year career at MOT.
He served the bulk or 42 of those years as founding general director before handing off the chief executive responsibilities just more than two years ago to President and CEO Wayne Brown, who’d served as director of music and opera at the Washington, D.C.-based National Endowment for the Arts for 17 years.